The backbone of Sony's wildly popular PlayStation 4 video game
console is the PlayStation Network. It's the online service that
powers Sony's digital storefront, all online gaming on the PS4,
and much more. If you're using a PlayStation 4 online in any
capacity, you're using PSN.

On Sunday evening, hackers claimed to have breached PSN and
stolen database information. The group, named "OurMine,"
was able to overtake Sony's official PlayStation-branded
Twitter accounts to announce the alleged hack:

The accounts were quickly retaken by Sony, and the tweets from
the hackers were deleted. A handful of Twitter users captured the
moment before it was gone, as seen above.

When contacted, a representative for OurMine told Business
Insider the following:

"We got only registration info [usernames, names, emails, etc.].
No, we are not going to release it. We are a security group; we
will only send it to Sony to prove it. And no, Sony haven't
contact us yet."

Sony didn't respond to our request for comment as of publishing.

OurMine

Despite OurMine's claim to be a "security group,"
its official website
describes the group as "an elite hacker group known for many
hacks showing vulnerabilities in major systems." The concept is
simple: OurMine hacks services operated by major corporations,
publicizes those hacks, then sells its security services to the
company it hacked. In the case of Sony's PlayStation Network
database, OurMine is claiming it hacked in and stole user
information stored in a database.

It's not clear if that information was actually taken; Sony
hasn't confirmed or denied the hack, though it's clear that at
least Sony's social media accounts were indeed compromised.
Following the breach on social media, Sony scrubbed the tweets
from OurMine and hasn't issued any statements publicly.